16-unit residential new construction, zoned RM1.
A 16-unit apartment building is now under construction at 1525 North Stillman Street in Brewerytown, adding another piece to the slow-burn densification of the neighborhood's residential grid. The three-story building will span a 7,303-square-foot lot, delivering Type V-B wood-frame construction with an NFPA 13R sprinkler system—standard fare for this kind of mid-density infill. The property, owned by an entity called 1525 North Stillman Stree, last changed hands in 2019, and the project cleared its final development hurdles this summer.
The RM1 zoning here allows attached residential by right, and developers have been taking full advantage across this corner of Brewerytown and Sharswood. Within a half-mile radius, roughly 165 new units are either planned or delivered, including a cluster of projects along North 24th and 25th Streets—among them a 21-unit building at 1528 North 24th and a 16-unit structure at 1503 North 25th. The pace is steady rather than frenzied, with most of these ventures targeting modest-scale rental or condo formats that fit the neighborhood's low-rise character.
Stillman Street itself is narrow and historically residential, lined with a mix of older rowhouses and vacant lots that have attracted incremental rebuilding over the past several years. This project is typical of the formula: buy a cleared or assemblable parcel, stick to the zoning envelope, and build something that pencils without major concessions or financing theatrics. It's not flashy, but it works in a market where land prices remain reasonable and demand for new rental stock holds.
What this signals is more of the same—patient capital threading through blocks that still carry plenty of underused land. Brewerytown's transformation has been uneven, but projects like 1525 North Stillman suggest that the next chapter will likely be written lot by lot, with RM1 parcels offering straightforward math for smaller operators willing to build incrementally rather than wait for a grand plan to materialize.
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